Photos from Shanghai, China
Read my trip recap, if you haven’t yet.
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Here’s a couple more photos to whet all your baby-craving appetites! Amanda and Ariella are both doing great, and both should be coming home tomorrow.
Courtesy of Mike Miller… Well, after almost a year of soliciting vendors and model train clubs, CTRC members Beverly Mruk and Mark Lewandowski (board member) have pulled off what is destined to be the biggest model train show in Western New York! At last count, we will have 122 model train and train-related vendors plying…
I’m upgrading Punaro.com to WordPress 3.0 and trying out the new default theme, which is fairly configurable. This place needed an update, so this is one way to force myself to do it. The WordPress 3.0 upgrade was the most painless software upgrade I’ve ever done. It literally took 30 seconds. No warnings, no errors,…
I took this picture tonight at Sears. Both “sales” are for the same product. Which deal would you prefer?
I got a good chuckle reading All Things Jennifer’s article about one of her posts showing up on Google Finance, even though it didn’t have much to do with finance. But then that got me thinking… I actually did write a finance related post last week… did that show up on Google Finance? Why, yes…
Let’s start off with the big news of the week – Microsoft buying Skype: #1 – 5 Key Takeaways From the Microsoft-Skype Press Conference [gigaom] On the morning Microsoft made its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype official, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates held a press conference in downtown San Francisco to discuss…
From all those photographs, the one that struck me (and probably not many others) the most is the one with the bicycles all lined up. The juxtaposition of very modern with the very communist-egalitarian is a hoot. I have a similar photograph from my trip to Shanghai – hundreds upon hundreds of bicycles, all virtually identical, Schwinn-looking, rust-covered, circa 1950s. I never did find out if they were community property or individually owned, but I couldn’t imagine knowing how to tell mine from the others, had I owned one.
I guess you had to be there.
BBD
Hooters in China….. I like them more and more all the time.
Have seen many of your photos, but I don’t really remember alot of them not to say that they aren’t good but there are a few here that have really caught my eye — the black and white tree lined pathway is amazing. I also really enjoyed the sunset skyline shot and night lites shot. Very good shots Derek from what looks like an amazing place to visit.